LAURENT METTRAUX
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(Switzerland)
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ARCHIVES: CONCERTS 2007
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Erhebt die Stimme,
for mixed choir a cappella, M.596 (1998)
Divertimento Vocale, conducted by
Caroline
Charrière
With works by Swiss
composers
Émergences, for violin
and accordion, M.652 (2006)
Soyons
(Ardèche, France), Church – Sunday, March 18th,
2007, 6 pm
Saint-Raphaël
(Var, France), Auditorium of the Congresses Palace – Tuesday,
March 20th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Vaudricourt
(near Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France), Espace Agrestis – Thursday,
April 5th, 2007
Les Espaces
insoupçonnés, for solo cello, M.653 (2006)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
On the occasion of the concert tour of the
Cello-Wasser-Klang-Bilder project
With works by Bach and Ibert,
as well as improvisations by A. Roman
Basel,
Open Church St. Elisabethen – Thursday, March 22nd,
2007, 7.30 pm
Zurich,
Church St. Jakob am Stauffacher – Friday, March 23rd,
2007, 8 pm
Lausanne,
Beaulieu Theater – Saturday, March 31st,
2007, 9 pm
Duo for Flute and
Clarinet, M.598 (1999)
During the Heures musicales de Saint-Jean
With works by Werner Bärtschy, Ulrich Gasser and Jürg
Wittenbach
La
Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), St John Church – Sunday,
March 25th, 2007, 5 pm
Les Espaces insoupçonnés, for solo
cello, M.653
(2006)
With works by Bach, Berio, Henze,
Ibert and Wildberger, as well as improvisations by A. Roman
Assisi
(Italy), Saint Francis Basilica and other churches – From
Thursday, April 5th to Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Le Tombeau de Ravel, for ensemble,
M.654 (2006)
Danses suisses (Swiss
Dances), for four-handed piano, M.635 (2003-4)
Complainte, for solo violin, M.633 (2003)
Duo for Violin and Alto Saxophone, M.540 (1996)
Al cor di zolfo…, for
low voice, M.559 (1997)
Lied, for soprano
saxophone and piano, M.551 (1997)
During the workshops of contemporary music of the High
School of Music of Fribourg
Professional
students of the High School of Music of Fribourg:
for
the Tombeau de Ravel: Marie-Odile Hormière, basset horn – Lise Kolly, bassoon –
Damaris Genin, violin –
Pierre-Bernard
Sudan, cello – Hervé Dubois, guitar – Céline Bouzenada, piano – Cédric
Jeanneret, percussion
for
the Danses Suisses: Alexandre Rion and Raphaël Sudan, piano four-hands
for
the Complainte: György Zerkula, violin
for
the Duo for violin and saxophone: Ronny Spiegel, violin – Sylvain Coquoz,
saxophone
for Al cor di zolfo…:
Jean-Louis Raemy, baritone – Jean-Claude Charrez, piano
for
the Lied: Roland Bärtschi, clarinet – Etienne Murith, piano
With works by Caroline
Charrière and Benedikt Hayoz
Fribourg,
Great Hall of the High School of Music – Monday,
April 23rd, 2007, 8 pm
Suite for Three
Flutes, M.649 (2005-6)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Commissioned by the ensemble Les Chemins de Traverse
Presentation, score excerpts and audio recording
Les Chemins de
Traverse (Barbara Minder, Isaline Dupraz and Matthieu Amiguet, flutes)
With works by Wilhelm Friedrich
Ernst Bach, Chapman, Devienne, Jacob, Rossignol and Tcherepnin
More details on the website of the Chemins de Traverse
Neuchâtel
(Switzerland), Salle des Pasteurs (rue de la Collégiale 3) – Monday, April 23rd, 2007, 8 pm
Schliern
bei Köniz (Switzerland), Kirchliches Zentrum Murrihuus (Muhlernstrasse 230) – Saturday,
April 28th, 2007, 8 pm
La
Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Saint-Pierre Church (rue de la Chapelle 7),
during the Chapel Concerts – Sunday, April 29th 2007,
5 pm
Déploration, for
piano, M.621 (2001)
With works by Holliger,
Kelterborn, Moser and Piller
Le Tombeau de Ravel, for ensemble,
M.654 (2006)
Compagnie
CH.AU (Virginie Falquet, piano – Laurent Estoppey, saxophone – Ludovic
Thirvaudey, bassoon –
Valérie
Bernard, violin – Aurélien Ferrette, cello – Antonio Albanese, guitar – Peter
Baumann, percussion)
Together with the other works first performed during the project
inspired by the Tombeau de Couperin
by Ravel,
by Caroline Charrière, Rico Gubler, Francisco Huguet,
Rodolphe Schacher and Dragos Tara, as well as this work by Ravel
Vevey,
Théâtre de l’Oriental – Monday, May 28th, 2007,
1 pm
Les Espaces insoupçonnés, for solo
cello, M.653
(2006)
On the occasion of the concert tour of the
Cello-Wasser-Klang-Bilder project
With works by Bach and Ibert,
as well as improvisations by A. Roman
Chur,
Studio 10 (Rabengasse 10) – Friday, June 8th, 2007,
8 pm
St.
Moritz, Concert Hall of the Chesa da Cultura (Via Dimlej 44) – Saturday,
June 9th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Trio for Flute, Viola
and Harp, M.569 (1997/9)
With works by Debussy,
Jolivet and Zbinden
Adagio, for
violin and organ, M.473 (1993)
Les
Diablerets, Protestant Church of Vers-l’Église –
Saturday, July 14th, 2007, 6 pm
Montana,
Protestant Church –
Sunday, July 15th, 2007, 6 pm
Émergences, for
violin and accordion, M.652 (2006)
During the Festival Musicalta
With works by Bach, Bartok,
Bloch, Contet, Finzi, Léandre, Piazzolla, Vivaldi and Ysaÿe
Hattstatt
(Haut-Rhin, France), Sainte Colombe Church – Friday,
August 3rd, 2007, 8.30 pm
Les Espaces insoupçonnés, for solo
cello, M.653
(2006)
With works by Bach, Camidge
and Wesley (with Jörg Perron,
organ)
Ramosch
(Engadin, Switzerland), Church – Friday, August 10th,
2007, 8.30 pm
Cyprès (Cypress), for
string quartet, M.660 (2007)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
During the Ljubljana Festival
With the first complete
first performance of the 18 songs of the song cycle Cypresses by Dvorak (with Johannes Kalpers, tenor – Martin Bruns, baritone – Andreas Frese,
piano),
and the adaptations for
string quartet of 12 of these songs by Dvorak himself
Ljubljana
(Slovenia), Stanovska dvorana Hall of the Ljubljana Castle – Tuesday,
August 14th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Lied, for soprano saxophone
and piano, M.551 (1997)
During the 15th
Schubertiade organised by the French-speaking Swiss Broadcasting Espace 2
Laurent Estoppey, saxophone – Virginie Falquet, piano
Fribourg,
Gutenberg Museum – Saturday,
September 1st, 2007, 10.30 am
Fribourg,
Salle de la Lenda – Saturday,
September 1st, 2007, 5 pm
Elogio della Notte,
on texts by Michelangelo, M.549 (1997)
During the 15th Schubertiade organised by the
French-speaking Swiss Broadcasting Espace 2
With works by Reutter and
Wolf, on texts by Michelangelo, as well as Lieder by Schumann
Fribourg,
Salle de la Lenda – Saturday,
September 1st, 2007, 3.30 pm
Fribourg,
Providence Chapel – Saturday, September 1st,
2007, 6 pm
Danses suisses (Swiss
Dances), for four-handed piano, M.635 (2003-4)
During the 15th Schubertiade
organised by the French-speaking Swiss Broadcasting Espace 2
Jérôme
Kuhn and Pierre-Fabien Roubaty, piano
With works by Caroline
Charrière, Dmitri Shostakovich and Alicia Terzian
Fribourg,
Salle de la Lenda – Saturday, September
1st, 2007, 0.30 pm
Fribourg,
General Council Hall – Saturday,
September 1st, 2007, 6 pm
Erhebt die Stimme,
for mixed choir a cappella, M.596 (1998)
During the 15th Schubertiade
organised by the French-speaking Swiss Broadcasting Espace 2
Divertimento Vocale, conducted by
Caroline
Charrière
With works by Swiss composers
Fribourg,
Cordeliers Church – Sunday, September 2nd,
2007, 5.30 pm
Lied, for soprano
saxophone and piano, M.551 (1997)
Laurent Estoppey, saxophone – Virginie Falquet, piano
Vevey,
Foyer de l’ASLN (rue de l’Hôtel de Ville 1)
– Wednesday,
September 5th, 2007, 8.15 pm
Lacrimosa, for
orchestra, M.458 (1990, rev. 2006)
FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE REVISED VERSION
With works by Chapuis, Denéréaz
and Rachmaninoff
A
recording on CD shall be made for VDE-Gallo
Émergences, for
violin and accordion, M.652 (2006)
Brive
la Gaillarde (France), Municipal Theatre – Friday,
October 5th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Soliloque, for solo
violin, M.585 (1998)
On
the occasion of a concert tour in San Francisco
Pittsburg,
San Francisco (California), Los Medanos College – Tuesday,
October 16th, 2007, 0.45 pm
Moraga,
San Francisco (California), Saint Mary’s College – Wednesday,
October 17th, 2007, 8 pm
Stockton
(California), University of the Pacific – Friday,
October 19th, 2007, 2 pm
Lied, for soprano
saxophone and piano, M.551 (1997)
Philippe Savoy, saxophone – Juan David Molano, piano
Carouge
(Geneva, Switzerland), Robert Dunand Hall
– Wednesday,
October 17th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Manizales
(Colombia), Auditorium of the National University of Colombia, Campus of
Palogrande – Tuesday,
October 23rd, 2007, 7 pm
Bogotá
(Colombia), Centro Cultural Gabriel de Betancourt – Thursday,
October 25th, 2007, 5.30 pm
Corpataux
(Fribourg, Switzerland), Church – Thursday,
November 1st, 2007, 8 pm
Cloches du crépuscule et de l’aube,
for carillon, M.657 (2007)
FIRST PERFORMANCE
With works from different
centuries and the first performance of a work by Lionel Chapuis
Gruyères,
Switzerland, Church – Saturday, October 27th,
2007, around 5 pm
Suite for Three
Flutes, M.649 (2005-6)
Les Chemins de
Traverse (Barbara Minder, Isaline Dupraz and Matthieu Amiguet, flutes)
With works by Wilhelm
Friedrich Ernst Bach, Chapman, Devienne, Jacob, Rossignol and Tcherepnin
Geneva,
Lutheran Church (Rue Verdaine 20 / Bourg-de-Four) – Friday,
November 9th, 2007, 6.30 pm
– During the
Concerts for peace organized by Musique et Vie on the occasion of the 300th
anniversary of the Lutheran Church of Geneva
Fribourg,
Centre le Phénix (Rue des Alpes 7) – Saturday,
November 10th, 2007, 8 pm
Lausanne,
English Church (Christ Church, Av. de l’Église-Anglaise 1) – Sunday,
November 11th, 2007, 5 pm
Le Cocyte, for full
orchestra, M.603 (1999)
Georgian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Nicolas Rauss
With works by Martin,
Mozart and Debussy
Lacrimosa, for orchestra, M.458
(1990, rev. 2006)
Émergences, for violin
and accordion, M.652 (2006)
Saint
Lo (France), Roger Ferdinand Theatre – Tuesday,
December 11th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Bourg
sur Gironde (France), Castle of the Citadel – Friday,
December 14th, 2007, 8.30 pm
Chatellerault
(France), New Theatre – Thursday, December 20th,
2007, 8.30 pm